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Old Mole Variety Hour for 10/16/23: Indigenous People's Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Lakota Cheyenne Mole Roben White hosts this all-Native Indigenous Peoples Day show, including:   Land-based Healing: Judy BlueHorse Skelton (Nez Perce/Cherokee), Assistant Professor at Portland State University (PSU) and Emma Johnson (Cowlitz), Senior Instructor at Portla... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 2, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. What is the relationship between things held in Common — from rivers and forests, to traditions of sharing and mutual aid — and communism? How should we understand th... Read more

Back to School (and Gun Violence)

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Right wing gun lovers are doubling down on their push to arm teachers. But as it turns out, gun-toting personnel in schools make violence worse. Our Well Read Red Sharon Grant reads from an article by teacher Nataliya Braginsky which was published June 7, 2022 in In These T... Read more

Back to School in Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Back to School in Crisis: Claims that education is in crisis often mischaracterize the nature of the problems and of the solutions. The problems do not arise from remote learning, nor from the accurate teaching of US racial history, nor the respecting of children's gender i... Read more

Legal Strategies for Climate Justice, Part two

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The fight against construction of Enbridge Company's Line 3 in Minnesota, carrying tar sands oil from Canada through the Midwest, was the largest Indigenous-led pipeline resistance in North America after Standing Rock. Opposition from 2017-2021 brought thousands of people f... Read more

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Lisa See’s historical novel, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, is a meticulously researched book on Chinese medicine in the 1500’s. It purports to be a record of a female doctor. Midwives, women who deliver newborns, are an essential part of medical treatment for women. “…since w... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 25, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 09/25/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Back to School (and Gun Violence): Right wing gun lovers are doubling down on their push to arm teachers. But as it turns out, gun-toting personnel in schools make violence wors... Read more

A Lifetime of Labor Struggle

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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Bill Resnick interviews Dianne Feeley who has fought her whole life for worker power, not just for a bigger piece of the pie, but for real participation and decision making in a society in which democracy is not confined to occasional elections but is nourished in daily lif... Read more

Lessons from Labor History

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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On this Labor Day program Laurie Mercier speaks with Mary Anne Trasciatti, Director of Labor Studies and Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy at Hofstra University, about the inspirational early-20th century anti-capitalist radical, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and her succ... Read more

Legal Strategies for Climate Justice, Part One

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
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The fight against construction of Enbridge Company's Line 3 in Minnesota, carrying tar sands oil from Canada through the Midwest, was the largest Indigenous-led pipeline resistance in North America after Standing Rock. Opposition from 2017-2021 brought thousands of people f... Read more